“when once you have tasted flight…” ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.  ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

     And I have felt
     A presence that disturbs me with the joy
     Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
     Of something far more deeply interfused,
     Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
     And the round ocean and the living air,
     And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
     A motion and a spirit, that impels                        
     All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
     And rolls through all things.

    ~ from “Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth

(composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour. July 13, 1978).

Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.

I don’t need words when I fly.